2. BURMAN'NIA, L. (Dedicated to one Burmann, a German botanist.) Perianth tube scarcely produced above the ovary, often 3-winged below, limb with 3 inner teeth much shorter; capsule prismatic, often 3-winged, cells 3, with a thick placenta; in the axis: seeds numerous. -

2 B. capitata L. St. setaceous, furnished with a lew subulate bracts, simple, erect, bearing at top a dense cluster of white fls.; ovary and fruit scarcely winged. - Upper districts of S. Car. and Ga. (Bachman), less common and with smaller fls. than in the last. St. 6 to 8' high. Sept